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The MERCYFUNKS : Don’t Pet The White Dog

In 1999, “The List of Who Lives” was released by visual artist Kevin Teare to critical musical acclaim in such publications as The Village Voice, CMJ & MOJO. Teare was a founding member of the 80′s No-Wave band MX-80 SOUND. The List of Who Lives featured all original material with guest performances by such luminaries as Terence Stamp, Jay Daugherty, Wayne Kramer, Richard Lloyd and Bob Neuwirth.

Teare’s recent project: The MERCYFUNKS, has just released, “Don’t Pet The White Dog”, an original thirty song homage to The Beatles’ “White Album”.

Each CD and record are individually numbered and comes with a full color poster ala Richard Hamilton’s “The Beatles” original.

The recording features a core band comprised of Pony Thompson: Vocals, Jewlee Trudden: Guitar, Keelan James: Piano and Kevin Teare: Drums. The material for this double album was recorded quickly and almost entirely live.

It will be released to the public on November 22, marking the 46th anniversary of The Beatles’ original recording. The material on “Don’t Pet The White Dog” was recorded between July 2012 and October 2013 in the painting studio of Kevin Teare using an Otari 16 track 1″ reel to reel. The analog tracks were bounced to digital and mixed at Monk Music by Cynthia Daniels. The tracks included for the vinyl version were mixed down to Otari 2 track reel to reel and pressed from this analog source at Telegraph Mastering in Portland, Oregon by Adam Gonsalves.

70 % of the proceeds from sales of the CD, LP and all merchandise available through the website will be donated to Lyme Nation, the most honest and progressive clearinghouse for all information and treatment protocols concerning the global epidemic of tick-borne diseases.